ULTRASONIC DENSITOMETRY IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF OSTEOOPENIC SYNDROME IN CHILDREN WITH CHRONIC LUNG DISEASES

Abstract

Osteopenic syndrome in children is an urgent problem in pediatrics due to the high prevalence and impact on the manifestation of osteoporosis in adults [3, 6, 13].

  Studies conducted in the last decade have convincingly proved that the problem of osteoporosis is associated with the period of childhood [10].  Children's age attracts attention because during this period the bone mass increases intensively.  In this regard, the period of puberty is  particular importance, since by its completion the level of bone mass in many parts of the skeleton reaches 86% of the bone mass of the  adult [5,7,9,13,14,15].  Violation of the processes of bone formation is in a child that  under the influence of both chronic diseases and other factors and already leads to the formation of osteopenic syndrome in childhood and, as a result, to an increased risk of developing osteoporosis and bone fractures later